Jessica Garratt is the author of Fire Pond, winner of the Agha Shahid Prize in Poetry and published by the University of Utah Press in 2009. She earned her PhD from the University of Missouri, and has also held fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Hambidge, the Carson McCullers Center, and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her MFA. Jessica currently lives in Washington, DC, where she teaches creative writing courses at George Washington University and The Writer’s Center. Her poems have appeared in Southwest Review, Crazyhorse, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Western Humanities Review, and other journals.